Originally published at: Mindshare Elections: Interview with Shaun McCance (shaunm) – Fedora Community Blog
This is a part of the Mindshare Elections Interviews series. Voting is open to all Fedora contributors. The voting period starts today, Tuesday 20th May and closes promptly at 23:59:59 UTC on Monday, 2 June 2025.
Interview with Shaun McCance
- FAS ID: shaunm
- Matrix Rooms: I’m in a lot of channels. Here are a few you can find me in –
- Fedora: commops, marketing
- CentOS: centos-promo, centos-docs, centos, ask-the-centos-board
- Gnome: gnome:gnome.org
Questions
What is your background in Fedora? What have you worked on and what are you doing now?
I’ve been at least tangentially involved with Fedora since the beginning. Initially, I worked with the Fedora documentation team while I was the GNOME documentation team lead, then later as a documentation community architect at Red Hat. I now work as the CentOS community architect. As part of that role, I often work with the Fedora community architect on a number of things, from social media to event execution.
Please elaborate on the personal “Why” which motivates you to be a candidate for Mindshare.
I’m passionate about promoting Fedora specifically and open source in general. Although I have a technical background, I’ve found that community engagement and promotion are where I can contribute most effectively. There’s a lot of opportunity for cross-community engagement between Fedora and CentOS, and I think that serving on Mindshare will allow me to increase these efforts.
How would you improve Mindshare Committee visibility and awareness in the Fedora community?
Mindshare serves as a sort of umbrella for a number of Fedora teams. Rather than focus on improving the visibility of Mindshare itself, we should work to align these teams and provide them the resources they need, so that their work can be more visible in the community.
What part of Fedora do you think needs the most attention from the Mindshare Committee during your term?
We can be more strategic in our community engagement efforts. Our events presence tends to be haphazard, without a unifying message. Some of our social media channels have great content, but we don’t have project-wide strategic goals across all our social media. I would work across the teams to develop plans that align with Fedora Strategy 2028.